hi doodles to start i want to that everyone that has ever supported me the slightest. it means a lot i'm going to make a few projects before fully leaving so stay peeled there are 3 main reasons i am leaving 1. school and free time (kinda backstory concidentally) when i made this account it was in the middle of lockdown in covid 19 i had been on scratch prior but i wanted to start new. i had nothing to do in my free time than to play video games. so i decided to boot scratc up again. lockdown lasted until the summer but i had nothing to do in the summer holidays so i carried on. school started again (rip). it was IRL school as well so i couldn't be as active but i still remained loyal to the website because of all the friends i had made. when the second lockdown in England happened after Christmas. school shut again. after not spending a lot of time on scratch i felt detached from the community and had ZERO motivation. fast forward a bit. schools reopened and i went back. i struggle to have time for scratch. school and gaming. i play mainly: minecraft, clash of clans, apex, ark, overwatch my main hobby is gaming, always has been. it's more fun than scratch in my opinion since i usually play with people ik irl and can talk to each other in real time. juggling my time between gaming school and scratch. scratch has a lot less time. mainly because like i said gaming is more enjoyable and school eats up my time and is compulsory. 2. IRL freinds i'm not going to make this personal. basically just before lockdown my main friend was a bit of an idiot so i wasn't friends with him anymore. i didn't really have many other friends so i was bit lonely. lockdown happened and you know the rest and since i had little IRL friends i had online friends. notably @Dqmmy @akboi12 @character_creator i am friends with other people as well im just to lazy to write them down. lockdown was over and i made lots of new friends and made up with my friend from before. so now i didn't really need my scratch friends as much. so would rather play Xbox with my IRL friends than talk to a scratch friends. don't take any offence from this btw 3. age I'm 13 years of age. i never revealed this because of embarrassment of my stuff because it's pretty crap i'm going to leave soon so i don't care now. i'm to old this really. no offence to eight year olds or people younger than or are ten but you irate me sometimes not all of the irrating people are under ten but an decent amount is mainly them. i'm quite gifted at psychology so i can tell what's going on. here's a thing i call the scratch effect. so a young person on scratch has some sort of insecurity and uses fame to make themselves feel better. there's nothing wrong with you if you fit into this but it's pretty common here and you shouldn't take offence. thanks for reading you deserve 10000 bobux <33 shoko and ak man are epic